Dr. Mulk R. Arora Endowed Lecture in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Featured guest speaker Dr. Amitav Ghosh

"The Nutmeg’s Curse: Non-human voices and more-than-human stories”

Reception & Book Signing

• Lecture begins at 6:00 pm in the Charger Union Theatre
• Reception & Booksigning at 7:30 pm Charger Union Bridge 

Moderator: Dr. Eric Smith, UAH English Department

ABOUT:  

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and The Ibis Trilogy, consisting of Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. The Great Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, appeared in 2016. Gun Island, was released in September 2019. Ghosh’s first-ever book in verse, Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban, was published February 2021. His latest book, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, was released in October, 2021.